Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas. Allan also introduced me to Richard McDougall, who had worked with Allan for Sun Australia, and Richard visited for a rotation to build some monitoring tools.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

Performance 113

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. Never assume that most businesses are well run, and that they represent some sort of “best practice.”

Games 120

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 120

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions. SQL Server 2005 ​​ contains ​​ the stalled I/O ​​ monitoring and ​​ detection.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40